And what’s your eldest son doing this evening? Um…Conner,”…

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— B.L. Brunnemer

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— Peter Zumthor

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— Hilary Mantel

Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off the gingerbread,…

— Noel Coward

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— Craig Sager

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Many Horses was putting the finishing touches on a bow he had been making when Hunter entered the tepee. Setting the weapon aside, he…

— Catherine Anderson

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— Josephine Tey

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— Ulysses S. Grant

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— David Rockefeller

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— Nora Roberts

It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.

— Robert D. Hales

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— Mahatma Gandhi

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